A 22-year-old Adrian woman fell to the floor and began sobbing when she was sentenced to prison Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit Court for assaulting a jail officer. Janika Nichole Edmond is to serve 16 months to two years in prison for assaulting a corrections officer in September, along with 17 months to four years for violating probation from a 2010 felonious assault conviction.

“I don’t understand this. I really don’t,” Edmond said after court officers helped her back to her feet so the sentencing hearing could be completed.

Edmond asked for probation, telling Judge Margaret M.S. Noe she has been attending counseling, stopped using drugs and has started studying to earn a GED.

Noe acknowledged Edmond’s efforts to improve herself.

“But the law says I must punish you before you can turn the page,” Noe said. “It bothers me to see you back here. It bothers me to see you involved again in a physical assault.”

She was convicted on charges stemming from assaults in 2008 and 2010 and of two probation violations before assaulting the jail officer in September.